10 Minute Puppets by Noel Macneal
10-MINUTE PUPPETS is filled with imaginative ideas, energy, and the pure, childlike pleasure of turning objects into characters. There are finger puppets: Wigglin' worm in an Apple, Teeny Ballerina, Little Pachyderm. Sock and glove puppets: Crabby Crab and Herb the Plant. Cutouts, shadow puppets perfect for the spur of the moment, like Envelope Bird-make it using a deposit envelope while waiting in line at the bank. With full-colour illustrations throughout, the book has step-by-step instructions for each puppet; pages of puppet parts and bodies to cut out and use; how to create a simple puppet theatre; plus, a final chapter with ideas for putting on a show, drawing on nursery rhymes, fairy tales, family stories, and more. So the food is late and your six year old is about to lose it. You know what to do: using a marker and your napkin, make the fashionable Lady Finger and start entertaining. Better yet, pass the marker to your child to create Handford, and the two of you can put on an impromptu dinner show.
Noel MacNeal launched his career performing on PBS's award-winning Sesame Street, where he honed his craft with puppetry legends Jim Henson and Frank Oz. He's been a performer on Sesame Street for over twenty years, most recently training puppeteers for the Sesame co-productions in Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Palestine, Jordan, and India. He is also a regular performer with the classic Muppets.For the past decade, Noel has been the spirit and voice of Bear, the gentle and lovable star of the Emmy Award-winning series Disney's Bear in the Big Blue House and the Disney Channel morning series, Breakfast With Bear. In 2003, Noel received a Daytime Emmy Nomination as Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series. His repertoire of characters also includes Lionel on PBS's Emmy-award-winning Between the Lions, Kako on the Nick Jr. series Oobi and Blue on Blue's Room. He's also played Magellan on the Ace Award-winning series Eureeka's Castle on Nick Jr. He played Madame Chairbird in the film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Rabbit for Disney Channel's Emmy Award-winning series The Book of Pooh, Leon on PBS's The Puzzle Place, and Knock-Knock on The Great Space Coaster. In addition, he's performed with and/or for: Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Whoopie Goldberg, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Emma Thompson, Wayne Brady, Dave Chappelle, Donny and Marie Osmond, Gilbert Godfrey, Tom Bergeron, Regis and Kelly, and Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. (But not all at once.)Noel is also a television writer. His scripts have been featured on PBS Kids Sprout's The Goodnight Show, PBS's Cyberchase, Disney Channel's Bear in the Big Blue House, PBS's The Puzzle Place and The Magic Schoolbus, Nickelodeon's Eureeka's Castle and Gullah Gullah Island. And now he's added the credit of television director, having directed episodes of Bear in the Big Blue House and PBS Kids Sprout's The Good Night Show and on camera talent as the human host of A Very Special Good Night Show for PBS Kids Sprout.Noel lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Susan, and three-year-old son, Matthew. He is the author of Ten-Minute Puppets with Noel MacNeal.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780761157144 |
| ISBN 10 | 076115714X |
| Title | 10 Minute Puppets |
| Author | Noel Macneal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Workman Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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